Saul Williams Shares Seismic New Track “The Flaw You Worship”

The latest offering from spoken word poet, director and activist Saul Williams is “The Flaw You Worship”. The track was released as thanks to supporters of his Kickstarter-funded film Neptune Frost.

Shot in Rwanda, Neptune Frost centers around “the most subversive hacking collective inventively exposing the gluttonous feast on natural resources from belly of the beast using the gutsiest platform takeovers in the history of a mystery.” Notably, Lin-Manuel Miranda has signed on as an executive producer, with Kara Walker as an associate producer. It is expected to premiere in October 2020.

A promising first taste of the film’s soundtrack, “The Flaw You Worship,” sprints a two-and-a-half minute lap worth many listens. Fortified by unremitting percussion and laser beam synths, Williams’ seismic declamations boom through his mic-turned-megaphone. He decries presidential authority and whitewashed cinema, citing “shitty movie after shitty movie” as results of a deeply rooted oversight— the heirloom of white privilege, “the flaw they worshiped.”

Williams is nearing his $150,000 Kickstarter goal, which you can contribute to until July 26. “Help me fuck shit up. With beauty,” he requests, likely with a wicked grin.